I actually almost got thrown out of college for doing that. In Advanced Assembly my Sophomore year I used, with permission, the code from a fellow student who had written a better piece of code for the previous assignment that the current assignment was built from. The only difference between my code and the code of most of my other classmates, was I gave the "proper" credit in the code itself, and got accused of cheating by the instructor and got us both called in front of the student ethics committee.
Basically, the teacher was pissed that I cited my work, even though he gave us the code in class. Except he didn't cite the source. It became one of those stupid college politically footballs because everyone on the committee had to admit (privately) that I followed proper coding procedure even if the instructor didn't. I had to redo the assignment using my code from the previous assignment (which I don't think even the instructor could get to work for the second part, which is why we all ended up with the other student's code.) Eventually the guy I borrowed from showed me how to imbed his code into mine so the instructor wouldn't see it, then I submitted that to pass the class. Needless to say I never took that instructor for a programming class again... BTW, the lesson we learned was to not take hardware based programming classes from the Software instructors. -----Original Message----- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why XP is doomed </propercoding> That's what happens with the use of everyone else's code. Even in class the instructors would say if you have routine that gets you the results you want just give credit to the originator and program around it. That kind of patchwork programming is what we have laying around our Internet and bloating our pc's. </propercodingrant> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hornbuckle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:55 AM Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed I'm not a programmer, but it does seem to me that today's programmers have been able to get sloppy in terms of memory usage. When I was a kid, I had a Commodore 64. It took a lot of talent and creativity to be able to program for a 64k machine. I think programmers these days figure the end user will have 1-2 gigs of RAM, so they don't try too hard to write ultra-efficient code. This is true at both the OS and the application level. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why XP is doomed It has just become ridiculous how much memory you need for a workstation. I remember upgrading workstations to 32MB of memory and then 64MB and we thought that was a lot. Servers back then only had 1-2GB of memory. I remember the old Novell servers running with 512MB of memory. Mike ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ______________________________________________________ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
